what the chief medical editor of the network is doing. >> thank you so much. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> that is all the time we have left this evening. thank you for being with us we'll see you back here tomorrow night see you tomorrow. "the o'reilly factor" is on tonight. >> i talked to some of the people i believe were lead perpetrators, and it's just obvious from them, there's just no chance that was an al qaeda attack. >> "the new york times" under heavy pressure because of an article about the assassination of the atmosphere christopher stevens in benghazi. we will present our findings tonight. there on governor romney's knee is his adopted grandson, who is an african-american. >> another msnbc person has to apologize for personal remarks. why does this continue to

happen? laura ingraham has some thoughts. let the plantation call new york city be the city of god. >> the plantation? a very liberal man is sworn in as the new mayor of gotham, amidst all kinds of far left rhetoric. >> we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities. >> charles pratthammer on that. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. hi, i'm bill o'reilly. happy new year. thanks for watching us tonight. the straight story about the murders in benghazi, that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. over the christmas break, "the new york times" ran an investigative report about how atmosphere christopher stevens and three other americans were murdered in libya in september

11, 2012. the story has been a sharp thorn for the obama administration and for former secretary of state hillary clinton, because there were security concerns in benghazi not addressed by the state department, also because the administration's version about what happened was murky and allegedly misleading. "the times" concluded that there is no evidence, no evidence, that al qaeda was involved in the murders and an antimuslim video promoted by a florida preacher did ignite the fuse of violence as the obama administration initially stated. but a factor analysis of "the times" article casts grave doubt on both of those conclusions. let's look at the facts. "the new york times" rightly claims that an anti-american group was behind the attack, but "the times" says the group is not afill yalted with al qaeda. the evidence says otherwise. in august 2012, a few weeks before the attack, the pentagon, the pentagon, issued a report

that said, "ann swar al sharia has increasingly embodied al qaeda's presence in libya." but "the times" does not mention, does not mention, the pentagon's assessment in its article. an amazing lapse, and a huge mistake. if the paper wants its readers to believe it is covering hard news in a fair way. simply no excuse for not including the pentagon's point of view. "the times" also says, "the attack seems to not be meticulously plans." nonsense. for hours thugs used grenades and automatic weapons to assault the u.s. missions compound in benghazi. militants were seen on video cameras chasing the mission before the attack and they hid

themselves until opening fire. they also attacked a cia compound a half mile away using mortars, and "the new york times" says the attack was not planned. are you kidding me? i guess the word "meticulously" is the paper's fallback, but it is pure bull. and the coordinated violence eliminates the videotape as a spontaneous driver of the murders, eliminates that. it's true, the militants knew about the tape from egyptian tv, but this ann sar group used violence before. they didn't need a tape to commit murder. so talking points believes "the times" story is deeply flawed and the editors should have known it. now, over the years, the paper has become deeply invested in changing america into a secular progressive country, and while it does do some noble reporting,

a primary goal of "the times" is to help progressive groups and politicians. you may remember "the times" implied that john mccain had an extramarital affair during his presidential campaign against barack obama. "the times" could produce no evidence, none, to justify that story, and to this day, senator mccain is bitter about it. now we have the lingering benghazi situation that may hurt hillary clinton in her presidential run. talking points believes that was the motivation for the way this investigation was framed by "the new york times." i could be wrong, but i'm not wrong about the reporting. it is seriously flawed. and that's the memo. for top story tonight, joining us from washington howard kurtz and bob goldburg, both are fox news analysts. am i making mistakes here? >> on the factual matter, i completely agree with you. on your theory that if the "new

york times" consciously had a pro hillary agenda, i don't know. could be. as you know, bill, there is never a smoking gun memo that says let's hurt the liberals and help the conservatives, but i think the reason so many people think the way you do about this, two reasons, two main reasons anyway. the first reason, on the main conclusion in the 7,000-word "new york times" piece that al qaeda wasn't involved, you're right. there are many responsible people in responsible positions who don't agree with that, one of those responsible people is a liberal democrat on the house who says al qaeda wasn't involved. >> who's that? >> that was adam ship in california. the second reason is, that "the new york times" has a, let's call it a credibility problem, mainly with conservatives.

the paper went easy on barack obama when he ran for president. there's a strong suspicion they are going to go easy on hillary when she runs, and not just on the editorial page, and because of that, and because of the mccain example that you correctly gave, a page one story with no proof implying that he had this affair, "the new york times" over the years has squandered a lot of its credibility, and i think that's why you and others, whether there's an agenda or not -- i know, but i'm saying, let's just say others. >> okay. >> whether there's an agenda or not, believe there is. >> okay, let's get to kurtz who worked for "the washington post," who knows about the bureaucracy of these newspapers. there are ten, ten, managing or associate editors on the masthead of "the new york times." ten. the overall editor, jill abe programson, an avowed liberal woman, way to the left, all right, okay, you're telling me,

kurtz, that ten editors who read this article in advance, none of them would say, you know what, the pentagon contradicts this. none of them do that? that's impossible! >> some of the reporting here may be flawed, you pointed to a serious omission, bill, but this was a serious attempt at journalism done over many months with many on the record interviews, including the prime suspect in the case, and you're sophisticated to know that you don't have your cairo bureau chief spend months on a story, which didn't mention hillary clinton at all, in order to help a likely presidential candidate two years from now, that's not how news works. >> you're kidding me. you're kidding me. you actually believe this story is a serious piece of journalism when you leave out the central tenant of what you're trying to say, no al qaeda involvement, you leave out the assessment of the pentagon and you're telling me that's serious?

>> i said it was a serious omission, but even if you accept -- i know you don't -- even if you accept every sentence as true, it paints a portrait of a compound in libya left undefended. >> what it does make the administration look credible, because it goes back to the videotape, which is what susan rice came out with and why republicans and some conservatives went wild and says, yeah, the videotape was the reason. the two main things, kurtz, the two main things, al qaeda and the tape, are wrong. wrong. all right? according to almost every intelligence expert in the world, this ann sar al sharia group has ties with al qaeda, and they don't even mention it. >> whether or not this group has ties to al qaeda or not, they were local extremists out to kill americans. >> doesn't matter. you have to mention the other side, and they did not.

all right. god help me, i'm giving goldberg the last word on this. goldberg, you've got it. >> well, if you conclude that al qaeda was not involved, by the way, president obama was running for re-election in part saying al qaeda was on the run. if you conclude al qaeda was not involved, you leave out a credible evidence to the contrary, it makes you wonder. that's all i'm saying. it makes you wonder about whether they had motives or not. now, i happen to agree with howard that two years out, they are not sitting there and having a secret meeting where they pull down the shades and give the secret salute and say let's do something to help hillary. >> they don't do that. they don't do that. >> they never do that. >> they want an article with a certain flavor. that's what they want. >> but my point is, bill, that when you leave out important things and you're already under suspicion, again, mainly by the right, they are not going to give you the benefit of the doubt. >> well, i think i shredded that

article here in three minutes and 33 seconds on this program, and i'll stand with what we did. gentlemen, thanks very much. two footnotes, kurtz seen sundays. goldberg.com is a must read. next on the run down, benghazi, and another msnbc commentator, excuse me, forced to apology for personal remarks. this time a child's involved. those reports after these messages. ♪

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our lead story, "the new york times" coverage of the benghazi controversy. joining us, james carville. i think i laid out a lucid case, that this article, investigative article, page one, was flawed. would you disagree with just that, the article is flawed? >> what i think we should do is,

and i think this is possible in the fact that you and i can call, subpoena david kirkpatrick and see what he's got to see. i'm sure that david can defend his own story, and he'll have to do that. >> you want us to subpoena him to come on "the factor"? >> go to the committee. >> don't try to quash that, they are not going to put up kirkpatrick in front of the committee. >> he's done the most exhaustive reporting on that. >> he can come on in here. >> why not bring him there? bring him before the committee. i'd be all for him. he's been on enough tv shows. >> i don't think congress should be snooping its nose into journalism. >> then he's been on any number of tv shows. he's perfectly capable of responding. >> you know what kind of shows he's on, tell me more. that's this, i'm challenging him. >> everybody said the mainstream media needed to investigate this, "the 60 minutes" did, "new

york times" did. i think "new york times" is looking better. >> "60 minutes" was not good for them, and they got punished for it, laura logan did. but kirkpatrick, no doubt on this pentagon thing that he didn't put in there. but it's even in a bigger picture because of the ten managing editors. and people have to understand, a guy like kirkpatrick goes abroad and does his work and it comes back, and the editors get ahold of it, all right, and that's what i'm saying, that there is a culture at "the new york times" that wants to help barack obama and looking forward, hillary clinton. >> i was with bill clinton, they sure didn't want to help us. >> in the beginning they did. in the beginning they did. first term they did. >> i remember them being particularly egregious on the whole kind of deal, but i don't want to relitigate that. i'm saying this, by the way, he lives over there in egypt and libya.

that's his whole life. that's what he's done, worked six months on this story, and if you think -- >> carville, carville, carville, if you work six months on a story, you know that the pentagon issued a report linking this group to al qaeda, and you don't put it in. explain that to me. >> he's going to be asked about it. >> you explain it to me. >> i'm not david kirkpatrick. i'm not the most skilled reporter in that part of the world. i'm sure that david kirkpatrick can answer that. i'll let him answer it. >> he can't answer it. he can't answer it. >> let's see what he says. >> he won't say anything, because no one will challenge him. he's going to go to ground now. he's going to run. >> no, he's not. no, he's not. they are going to win a pulitzer prize on this. look, it was fast and furious, ambassador pickering, admiral mullen, everyone in the world has looked into this. you know, it was certainly how he pointed out there was some screw ups here.

everybody acknowledges that. that al qaeda was just a command and control thing, i just don't -- >> nobody said al qaeda was command and control. >> i think whatever -- could there be some affiliated group that knew a guy that was there that had something to do with it, maybe so. >> you're diminishing it. >> i don't think there's much of an al qaeda connection, we disagree. i don't think there was. >> you can't explain if a guy's working for six months, why he leaves it out. you, carville, can't explain it. >> i'm not the person to explain it, but i bet mr. kirkpatrick can explain it fine. >> if you're going to defend the article, you have to. >> i didn't write it, he has to. >> if you're going to defend it, you have to explain it. >> we'll agree about that. directly ahead, laura ingraham on another nbc news person forced to apologize for personal remarks. and later -- >> say it! say it!

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another controversy that nbc news and its parent company comcast have to deal with. on december 29th, msnbc commentator melissa harris-perry talked about the romney family adopting an african-american child. >> this is the romney family, and, of course, there on governor romney's knee is his adopted grandson, who is an african-american, adopted african-american child, any captions for this one? >> one of these things -- >> my goal is that in 2040, the

biggest thing of the year will be the wedding between keerin romney and north west. can you imagine romney and kanye west as in-laws? >> harris-perry has apologized to the romney family, but this seems to be a never ending saga at msnbc. i don't think ms. harris-perry meant to be malicious here, unlike martin bashir and ed schultz and his comments directed to you, but she and her guests were clearly mocking the romney family, who did a good thing. >> why mention the race of the child at all? i thought we were supposed to be beyond race, yet every chance they get, the left has to say, okay, ha, ha, ha, caption here, please. i mean, imagine, bill, if you did that or i did that on the radio, you did that on television in a similar setting. sandra bullock's child, look, i have a daughter who's from latin

america. she's pretty brown skinned, you know, you just don't do that, right? i don't want to make a bigger deal of it than it is, because i think a lot of other things that happened at msnbc have been much more egregious, but again, the type of thing that the left tends to get away with, especially involving whites and -- versus blacks. they seem to get away with this kind of stuff time and again, and we've become kind of numb to it, but it certainly isn't helping the cause of liberalism, which i think msnbc strives to assist at all terms. >> the picture they were referring to with the black child was a christmas card that the romneys sent out. and they wanted to demean mitt romney and his family, that was the tone of the three of them. now you worked at msnbc, see, i problem over there, that there is a culture that either promotes or encourages in some

way these personal attacks, because they've trafficked in them for years. now it's reached critical mass on a lot of different fronts. am i wrong? >> look, leadership comes from the top down, and most news organizations, roger ailes sets the tone for fox, and i think we all try to live up to that, and i think at msnbc, you have phil griffin. i worked with phil at msnbc, he's always nice to me. i think it was in the early days from '96 to 2000 when i was there, and it was a different sensibility. it was kind of more edgy than lefty, right? you had a lot of conservative voices at msnbc at the time and it was a little bit more interesting back then, and now it seems as they've become more desperate, bill, in the quest to make some dent in these ratings, it's almost like people have to almost one-up each other. either that or they are just incredibly stupid, which could be a possibility. >> they are not incredibly stupid, i mean, they are not doing well.

if cnn is -- cnn, by the way, doesn't do this stuff very much. >> no. >> but they are in big trouble ratingswise and msnbc beats them by a little, and i guess they feel that this far left approach they take is the reason why, but i couldn't to be amazed by comcast, the parent company of nbc, owns it, took it over from general electric, because i've dealt with comcast in the past, and it's a good company, in my opinion. they know what's going on. they are a liberal crew to some extent, but not irresponsible. and they are allowing this to happen. this is just embarrassing, is it not? >> yeah, brian roberts, the ceo of comcast, is a pretty big democrat donor, couple hundred thousand to democrats, i believe, and $27,000, might be getting the numbers off a little bit, for republicans. there's quite a differential between his democratic donations and republican donations. i think their affinity is to the

left, but i'll ask this question of mr. roberts, how is this helping liberalism? if you're a liberal, you want an effective liberal. someone like rachel maddow -- >> she is responsible, she makes her point, she believes what she says, she's not malicious. >> no, i don't think so. >> why can't you hire a few more of those kind of people? now make a prediction. make a prediction, is comcast going to step in and do anything about this network? >> well, i would like to think they would. my prediction is some time in the next 12 months, especially before the next presidential election, you'll see the swinging door at msnbc again and there will probably be new faces and some of the newcomers of the last year or so will be gone. >> maybe they'll make you a big offer and we'll have to top it. >> yeah, bill, that's going to be a tough one. >> ms. laura ingraham, everybody. plenty more ahead this evening. kelly on two-court rulings, one on religion, the other on welfare drug use.

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health segment tonight, the first one of 2014, we have some interesting letters from some very annoyed folks. here to help us out, heather noward, word of the day. heather, first letter from sam, lives in new jersey. mad at hell because an innocent

man was gunned down in new jersey by four african-americans and not a word out of al sharpton about this. first of all, what happened there? >> yeah, they caught the four guys responsible. he was shot in the head on december the 14th, 15th, rather, late last year, and the four guys are in jail, in essex county, new jersey now, and charged with a whole slew of crimes, murder, felony murder, conspiracy, what have you. >> what happened was this lawyer and his wife were christmas shopping at a mall and these four, two of them just out of prison, were cruising to try to carjack and shot the guy in the head. so this is a crime, it's a crime, and it could be committed by any race, and it is, there are carjackers by hispanics, whites, everybody else. should somebody like sharpton, who's always mouthing off about how blacks are treated poorly in the criminal justice system, be saying something about this. >> the prosecutor says this doesn't appear racially motivated, it's about a car,

fancy range rover. >> stripping it down, getting money to buy drugs, that's what it is about. >> crime rate in new jersey, carjackings, and there's been a major rash of carjackings in this area so far, it's gone up 44% in the past couple years. >> letter number two comes from reverend michael croll. this hasn't been a good year of holding anybody accountable, but now senator richard blumenthal of connecticut wants to hold ups responsible for not delivering packages on time for christmas. so the government is getting involved in ups? >> some constituents from kentucky are saying, wait a minute, don't we have more important things? nevertheless, some people who ordered -- >> what does blumenthal want? >> ups, fedex, other companies, to pay back people who paid for the speedy delivery. >> is that unreasonable, shouldn't you get a refund? >> look, i think the retailers should be responsible. >> blumenthal is not being a pin head, he's sticking up for the

pros. >> people are saying aren't there more important things. >> i don't care what people say, i want to do this. if you pay your money for an on-time delivery that's guaranteed and you don't get it, they should be forced to give a refund. i'm with blumenthal. >> i think you have to be a little suspicious when they promise something on the 23rd and expect to get it by christmas. doesn't take a rocket scientist -- >> contract's a contract. third let from d.j. king. i'm mad because i don't think a majority of parents are teaching their children manners and social etiquette. i think that's a growing problem in this country. >> i disagree. i have a 3 year old and 4 year old, both boys. kids throw temper tantrums. it certainly happens. it's embarrassing for the parents and a lot of parents will pick up their kids and take them out of there. >> you think most americans are doing what you do? >> i think most parents try to teach their children please, thank you. >> you do? have you been to a shopping mall lately? >> yes, yes, yes!

but here's where i have a problem. i have a problem with kids who are 6, 7, 8, 9, when aren't doing that. >> i don't think so. i think civility in this country is declining. next letter from colorado springs. i'm angry because i attended my grandson's elementary school show and the kids sang about frosty the snowman and santa and hanukkah and peace but nowhere was christmas mentioned. there is a war on christmas. do you believe there sa war on christmas? >> i believe that some people are not comfortable with embracing god or religion or faith. >> you believe there's a war on christmas, but "the san francisco chronicle" does not, so we have to surrender. "san francisco chronicle" says no war on christmas. tony, i used to like jesse waters until he called pigeons rats. pigeons have been man's friend and ally longer than dogs have. i can't go into all the ways pigeons have benefitted man.

>> two ways. >> fascinating, world war ii, normandy, delivering messages from france to the uk. >> all right. >> they were concerned that the nazis would intercept. >> pigeons knew where the address was better than ups. they came and they delivered. >> that's what ups needs. the second one is search and water rescue. >> yes. >> basically taught by the u.s. coast guard to go out and spot people in boats in the middle of the water. >> pigeons do that? >> yeah. >> how do they tell? they can't speak. >> they have very good eyesight. >> they circle around and maybe go with the beak. that's what they would do with water, try to rescue. >> you're going to be thankful for these pigeons. >> i'm thankful now. if you're mad at hell, we want to know about it, please write us, madashell&foxnews.com. kelly is next. ♪

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"the o'reilly factor," the number one cable news show for 14 years running. thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly. tonight, two court rulings that are important. first, a supreme court justice sonya sotomayor has temporarily blocked the obama administration from forcing some religious groups to provide birth control

under obamacare. here to explain, ms. megan kelly. so, sotomayor is a liberal woman. >> yes. >> she did what? >> barack obama appointee to the u.s. supreme court, but she oversees the 10th circuit, colorado and other states, so this appeal was necessarily going to her, and she said that that piece of obamacare may not be enforced against these religious groups that are within this plan. it was a group of nuns objecting, because -- until the obama administration has a chance to file a defense on friday. >> okay. >> suggesting they might have a likelihood of success, the nuns may. >> little sisters of the poor in denver. these aren't militant women. they are women who believe -- >> they are nuns! >> believe me, i have nuns, kelly, don't tell me about them. these are nice. they say, look, you know, leave us alone, we're providing a service here. don't force us to do things. >> obamacare said you have to provide contraception coverage if you want to get your tubes tied, you have to pay for that,

all this stuff. the nuns and priests and religious groups not directly with the church want an exemption. the obama administration said you can have one, but in order to get this exemption, you have to certify sort of permission, if you will, for your employees to get this coverage from the insurance company, and the nuns say, look, that may provide us political cover on paper, but we have a moral -- >> we don't want to be involved at all. >> we don't want to sign a permission slip either. >> as you know, kelly, because you've watched this program and study it very, very closely. >> religiously, speaking of religion. >> which is why you got the 9:00 slot. for years i've been saying that the entitlement society has got to regulate people addicted to substance. you cannot keep pouring in money and resources to drug addicts and alcoholics, because they spend the money on the drugs and the booze. go to any neighborhood that has a lot of crime, and on welfare payment check day, the dope

n the u.s., lined up. everybody knows this. so florida tried to stop it, or at least regulate it, by drug testing people who want welfare payments, and now a pin head judge has said, you can't. it's an invasion of privacy, correct? >> you were doing well up until the pin head part. she got it dead right. the judge issued the right ruling. florida overstepped its bounds. their heart may have been in the right place, but they are not allowed to just randomly -- not randomly, mandatorily drug test everyone applying for welfare, and i said this on your show, i predicted this would happen, i predicted it on my afternoon show, that this would be struck down, and it has been. the reason is -- >> how do you get around this? >> listen, there's a fourth amendment in this country, you cannot engage in unreasonable searches or seizures. >> it's not unreasonable when you're applying for money from the state. >> yes, it is, your assumption

those people are druggies or alcoholics. there needs to be reasonable suspicion before you can engage in a search. doesn't say if you want public assistance. >> i understand your point of view, i disagree with it. >> 108 out of over 4,000 people drug tested in the state of florida were found to be using narcotics. >> you know why, the others don't show up for the test. >> it costs more to go through this program than it did without it. >> is there any way around this to hold people accountable? >> yes, yes, which is to require reasonable suspicion. if you've had a conviction for a drug arrest, then, then we require you to undergo drug testing. >> what about an arrest? >> that's dicier, but maybe, maybe. there are nine states that have done this, welfare or unemployment benefits on drug testing. the law tends to be going the way this does, you can't do it to all applicants. >> i understand it, but in a public policy arena, it's

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back tonight, inequality in america. yesterday, a new mayor was sworn in, new york city. perhaps the most liberal mayor in this city's history. bill de blasio takes over for michael bloomberg, and here are some highlights from his introduction. >> our nation has the largest prison population in the world. much of that problem stems from issues of race, perpetuated by the depth of human indifference.

>> let the plantation call new york city be the city of god, a city set upon the hill, a light shining in darkness. >> we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. >> joining us now from washington, charles krauthammer. inequality, charles, are we a nation that embraces inequality, which is what those gentlemen want us to believe? they want the audience to say we are a rotten system and they are going to fix it. >> no, in fact, i think among the western nations, the prosperous nations, developed nations, we are the least interested in inequality, because that implies that in addition to empowering the poor, your objective is to impoverish the rich. americans, generally speaking,

don't envy the rich, they want to be rich. they do believe we have an obligation to help the poor, to help those who are trying to get up the social ladder, and that's where the emphasis wants to be. but this class resentment abo n inequality implies this is a war of the rich on the poor. that just isn't true. >> in new york city now, the minorities are the most populated groups. they have passed whites. i think there are 3 million -- i want to get the stat right. 38 fortunate of new york city residents are foreign-born. this city doesn't really reflect the rest of the country democrat graphically. however deblasio won by class resentment. here is a question. i don't believe this guy will change anything about the poor and the rich. no t matter how much he takes s

from the rich. nothing will change under his administration. because he doesn't know what to do. >> i agree. take the one person in the country who made a cause of inequality which is the president of the united states. he said just a few months ago that will be the abiding theme of the rest of his presidency. yet under this president, inequality in america has increased dramatically. we have had, for the first time in 40 years, the median household income declining during the recovery as much as it declined during the recession. so here you've got liberals running around with their hair on fire, screaming about inequality at a time when they have been in power five years they have t not just done nothing about in equality. they have exacerbated it. >> they made it worse. >> so the theory, obama

deliberately wanted to do this. obviously he hasn't. obviously it's out of the control of of the government. >> the reason why is that these people like deblasio and barack obama to some extent punish private industry which, of course, provides the jobs and the economic ladder up when competition is introduced. but here is the trap -- >> you talked about the large number of immigrants in new york. the story of new york over the last century was these hordes of immigrants coming to ellis island with nothing, barely speaking english. they start a small business. that's been the story and the ladder of all the successes. yet you have a liberal administration in washington over regulating, overtaxing. introducing uncertainty. the ones who are hurt the most are small business. the big guys, the big companies

that have all the lobbyists and the lawyers have done well. they are exempt from the employer mandate. the little guy, not at all. they are shocked to see inequality and guys at the middle of the ladder unable to climb the ladder. >> happy new year. we should mention krauthammer's big besteller, "things that t matter," still doing well. check it out. factor tip of the day, my new year's resolutions. the tip moments away. be a victim of fraud. fraud could mean lower credit scores and higher interest rates when you apply for a credit card. it's a problem waiting to happen. check your credit score, check your credit report at experian.com. still runnng in the morning? yeah. getting your vegebles every day? when i can.

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straight to the point. thanks for watching the first show of 2013. ms. megyn is next. i'm bill o'reilly. the spin stopseeeeeeeeeeeeere i year. we are definitely looking out for you. welcome to "the kelly file," everyone. happy new year. i'm megyn kelly live in new york. tonight -- a "the kelly file" exclusive. new reaction as the obama administration asks a judge to release the lawyer convict ed o trying to help a terrorist. plus, did we get a glimpse of the future? >> now, in our time, we face a different crisis. an inequality crisis. >> see why the democrats' most likely pick for president is embracing the far left message of the most liberal